Medical Corps
The medical corps is a corporation founded in 1890 by Johann Baptist Tilly association of volunteer medical students , post-doctoral physicians , general practitioners and medical specialists at the district office Graz City of the Austrian Red Cross , National Association Styria.
The Medizinercorps offers the internationally unique training to become a rescue physician, through which medical students can independently apply the knowledge they have learned before completing their studies.
history
In 1889, the rescue of the wounded and sick in Graz was in the hands of the city's volunteer fire brigade , which established its own rescue department.
Johann-Baptist Tilly was employed as a " surgeon " at this time , but the requests for help soon exceeded Tilly's possibilities. For financial reasons, further admission of surgeons was out of the question. The doctor therefore motivated twelve medical students in 1890, trained them in their own courses and thus ensured emergency medical care for the city.
Goals and principles
The aim of the medical corps is to continuously improve the medical care of patients through extraordinary commitment in the field of emergency medicine. For this purpose, special attention is paid to the areas of training, further education and research. Based on this principle, medical students are offered intensive and multi-layered training in the field of emergency medicine at an early stage via the medical corps.
activities
Volunteering
Together with the two emergency medical vehicles of the Graz Red Cross, the medical corps ensures emergency medical care in the greater Graz area with over 5000 primary missions per year. For this purpose, the Graz Medical Corps manned two emergency ambulances (“Jumbos”) in Graz around the clock.
Until 2012, the medical corps provided an intensive care transport vehicle, with the emergency medical technician acting as the intensive care doctor 's 'right hand'. In addition, the medical corps is involved in many ambulance and large-scale operations of the Red Cross.
Education and training
Due to the experience gained in this way, NKI rescue physicians of the medical corps are often used as trainers for rescue and emergency paramedics of the Red Cross, medical students and prospective emergency doctors.
research
In addition, working on scientific studies is just as much a part of the task as evaluating innovative emergency medical techniques and equipment. After completing 940 hours of theoretical and practical training and exams to become a paramedic and emergency paramedic with general emergency skills and practice, medical students are trained to become paramedics with special emergency skills in "ventilation and intubation" (NKI). The legal basis is anchored in the Paramedic Act of 2002 (SanG).
Training as a paramedic
Paramedics lead the four-person team of emergency vehicles of the Graz Red Cross. This training is based on four pillars:
Medical studies serve as the first basic pillar. A certain degree of study progress, as well as clinical traineeships and electives, but also a special study module and regular training is a prerequisite for the later examination to become an ambulance doctor.
The second equally important pillar is the Red Cross. After completing 940 hours of theoretical and practical training within the Red Cross, as well as exams to become paramedics and paramedics with general emergency skills, medical students are trained to become paramedics with the special emergency skills "ventilation and intubation" (NKI). The legal basis is anchored in the Paramedic Act of 2002 (SanG).
At least as important as the third pillar is the training by the medical corps itself. Here, the correct diagnostic and therapeutic procedure is trained from the start using exercise scenarios in order to be perfectly prepared in an emergency. Well-founded theoretical knowledge is conveyed through the development, deepening and repetition of emergency medical knowledge in a 1: 1 teaching ratio.
The fourth pillar is regular service operations in order to be able to gain experience independently under the supervision of experienced rescue doctors.
At the end of the apprenticeship, the ambulance doctor undergoes a theoretical examination by the state Red Cross doctor or a person appointed by him. The second part of the final exam is a 12-hour practical exam, during which a day duty is completed under the supervision of two ambulance doctors and the emergency doctors on duty and the future NKI ambulance doctor is tested theoretically and practically.
Members
Members of the medical corps are active or former medical students of the Medical University of Graz who have successfully completed their training as jumbo helpers or rescue physicians. Rescue physicians who have completed their university education are also entitled to become members of the Medical Corps Alumni Association. There are currently around 500 rescue doctors, some of whom are still active.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b G. Prause, S. Oswald, D. Himler, G. Wildner, G. Gemes: The Medizinercorps Graz: a 120-year-old institution of emergency medicine. In: Prehospital emergency care: official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors. Volume 17, number 3, 2013 Jul-Sep, pp. 416-420, doi : 10.3109 / 10903127.2013.785622 , PMID 23611110 .
- ↑ Official homepage of the Alumni Association of the Medizinercorps Graz Alumni Association Medizinercorps Graz ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 4, 2013.
